More Quotes by Terence McKenna
To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and imagination.
Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer
The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.
Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.
Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about.
Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you're gonna pay $50 for a latte, because inflation is going impoverish all of us before people get pissed off enough to realize that all of the last hundred years of economic progress was actually a shell game to create billionaires, while the great masses of people saw their standard of living eroded and destroyed.
Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.
You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.
What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
